Dr Marina de Regt
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Marina de Regt (1965) studied anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in women and paid labour in the Arab World. After having obtained her MA degree in 1990, she worked six years in two development projects in Yemen (1991-1997). In 1998 she returned to the Netherlands to prepare a PhD dissertation about women health workers in Yemen. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2003.
In the period 2003-2006 she was a post-doctoral fellow, first at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden and later at the Amsterdam School for social Science Research (ASSR). Her post-doctoral research focused on migrant domestic workers in Yemen, particularly Ethiopian and Somali women, and their relations with Yemeni employers. The research was funded by the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) and part of the ISIM Research Programme "Migrant Domestic Workers: Transnational Relations, Families and Identities".
Since 1 August 2007, Marina is coordinator of the South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) at the IISH. Her main research interests are gender, labour, migration and development, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and methodologically the gathering of life stories and oral histories.
Selected publications
- Marina de Regt, 'High in the Hierarchy, Rich in Diversity: Asian Domestic Workers, Their Networks and Employers' Preferences in Yemen', in: Nicole Constable (ed.), Migrant Workers in Asia: Distant Divides and Intimate Connections. London: Routledge (2010).
- "Ways to Come, Ways to Leave: Gender, Mobility and Il/Legality among Ethiopian Domestic Workers in Yemen", in Gender & Society 24 (2): 237-260 (2010)
- with Reinhilde König, "Family Dynamics in Transnational African Migration to Europe: An Introduction", in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 3 (1): 1-13 (2010)
- "Refugee, Woman and Domestic Worker: Somali Women Dealing with Dependencies in Yemen", in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 3 (1): 107-119 (2010)
- "About Cleanliness, Closeness and Reliability: Somali and Ethiopian Domestic Workers in Yemen", in Marlou Schrover and Eileen Yeo (eds.), Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere, 1850-2005. London: Routledge, pp. 140-159 (2010)
- "Preferences and Prejudices: Employers' Views on Domestic Workers in the Republic of Yemen", in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 559-581 (2009)
- "Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction", in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, vol 6, no 2 (2008)
- "High in the Hierarchy, Rich in Diversity: Asian Domestic Workers, Their Networks and Employers' Preferences in Yemen', in Critical Asian Studies, vol 40, no 4 (2008)
- (with Annelies Moors), "Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East", in: Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, and Chris Quispel (eds.), Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective. Amsterdam: IMISCOE (2008).
- Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen. (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2007)
- "Housing and Health Care in the City of Hodeidah" (with Ali M. Ghailan) in Kamil A. Mahdi, Anna Würth and Helen Lackner (eds.), Yemen into the Twenty-first Century: Continuity and Change. (Reading, Ithaca Press, 2007)
- "Je hebt echt álles opgeschreven. Over de ethische dilemma's rond het teruggeven van onderzoeksresultaten", in LOVA Tijdschrift voor Feministische Antropologie 26/01, pp. 66-76 (2005)
- Ra'idaat fi dhuruf ghair muwattiya: al-murshidaat as-sahhiyaat wa siyassaat al-tanmiya fi-l-Yemen. (Cairo, Dar al-Muhajirrun, 2005) (Arabic translation of dissertation)
- "Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers in Yemen", in ISIM-Newsletter 12, pp.50-51 (2003)
- "Community Participation in the Squatter Areas of Hodeidah, Yemen", Sharqiyyat 9/2, pp.124-138 (1997)
- De ontrafeling van een vrouwenberoep: Tapijtknoopsters in Rabat-Salé (Marokko). (Leiden, Women and Autonomy Center, 1992)
- "Marokko: De islamitische legitimatie van een monarchie", in Thijl Sunier en Arend Jan Termeulen (eds.) Macht, mobilisatie en moskee: De diversiteit van de islam. (Baarn/Den Haag, Ambo/Novib), pp. 91-95 (1991)